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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1917
Page
13
A vintage health advertisement warns of winter disease spread and urges use of Swift’s blood purifier to bolster immunity. It emphasizes blood quality as key to resisting catarrh bronchial infections rheumatism and pneumonia, promises immediate vitality boosts and offers free medical advice from a chief adviser.
Wank Kauppick aged 82 died Tuesday at 7:30 in the morning at 227 Couper Slivel. He was a resident of Truavia Po koul hat. Funeral plans and full details were not provided in the fragment.
A San Antonio resident and Confederate veteran widow will be honored in a funeral held at 4 pm Wednesday at her home church St. Michel followed by burial in St Michel cemetery. Survived by four daughters Mesdames George Graham Samuel Dilly Annie Hoehler and J Shedrock among others.
Mes Virginia Norwood native of Virginia lived in San Antonio and Stockdale before returning to Shit city. Survived by daughter Mes Mrs Griffith and ten grandchildren. Body sent for stockdale funeral arrangements awaiting further details.
Fragmented OCR text shows funeral arrangements and undertaker ties involving Shetley Loring Undertakings and local companies. Names like Car af Tipresville and Pearlson Baker Co appear garbled but indicate a funeral notice with undertaker firms and related equipment.
Army personnel movements include Cal Kemued Marton charged in San Antonio operations with a temporary duty move to Camp Lejeune and plans to join ermission teams. Lieut Roland A. division and Lieut Ward of the reserve corps receive reassignment, while Kelly Field officers shift to a newly established flying school. Seventy seventh artillery seeks leave for Canin Zune Qel en route, and Cap Mavis In reports to the department as of Wednesday.
A garbled newspaper fragment advertises a mix of items including food like rice and beans, clothing and household goods, a drink and wine, plus an offer to order now. Mentions Southern Pacific sleeper service and appears to be an old classified or ad insert with incomplete phrasing.
A six and a half inch square piece of Zeppelin L-49 cover, black on one side and white on the other, carried a letter written by Maj. Gen. Unner Bundy. Dated October 15, it describes the airship’s crash near an American camp in France during the expeditionary force era. General Bundy, who previously served as department adjutant, sent the relic from San Antonio.
An aviation minstrel show project is planned at Kelly Field with Wil Kelly Mieldignant directing. The event, featuring pilots and field personnel, is set for December and will include a transforming scene with a bombarded United States and a host of musical numbers. The Grand Opera House is mentioned as a potential venue with Knights of Columbus Hall involved in planning.
The Red Cross entertainment committee plans twenty Christmas trees at the Base Hospital Welogk to cheer lonely soldiers. Mrs. EA Wilcon chairs the hospital subcommittee and will supervise gifts gathered by December 15. Simple toys and trinkets will be distributed, each wrapped and numbered for distribution by volunteers.
An urgent telegram from Washington requests new surgical dressings for San Antonio camps and other fronts. Headquarters in New York directs rapid shipment by January first and dispatch of an expert surgical dressing supervisor for instruction. Yale Army Attainment Corps news notes preparations for next week as students deemed unfit may be reassigned to military service.
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